There is maat as the concept, and Maat as the goddess that personifies the concept. Maat is about
truth, goodness, law, integrity, uprightness, correctness, real, genuine, righteous, steadfast,
unalterable, reality, justice, order, stability, continuity, equilibrium and balance towards such ends.
Maat is universal or cosmic in its conception, with a natural order of truth and justice, hence also
morality and law. Maat is thus a foundational aspect of the universe in this respect. Maat and its related
terms is comparable or corresponds in some way to the concepts of Morality, Karma/Kamma/Ka-maa,
Dharma, Rta/Rota, Tao/Dao, Wyrd, Moira, Me, Asha, and more, which all relate to the concept of
turning, rotation, cycles, fate or destiny. The order from cycles, turning and rotations is represented in
such symbolism as a wheel or circle, the orobouros, infinity, and other symbols, hence the Wheel of Life,
Time, Fortune, Fate, Destiny, Dharma, Karma, etc. These relate to consequences as a result of actions or
deeds whereby we essentially reap what we sow, both individually and as an aggregate species in the
secondary human world we create and live in.
The Greek goddess of truth Metis is a representation of the earlier Maat, as are the Greek goddesses
Themis and Dike representative of aspects of Maat. Maat has a lot of mystical conceptual
representation based on a conception of nature and the good (nfr) which is religiously and ritually
associated with the ability to have eternal life and not be annihilated by the Kamit monster who eats the
heart of those who fail to balance themselves to the feather of truth/maat.
In Dutch ‘de maat’ means the proper measure, which has to do with correctness, exactitude, weighing,
and balance through measurement. Maat and related symbolism, is about the measurement of our
behavior, actions and deeds, which is what moral and self-knowledge is for, the foundation for real life,
hence maat and Maat’s Hall of Two Truths, Double Truths, of the knowledge of good and evil. This
aspect of judgment, scales and maat was the most important symbolic representation in the mythos
narratives regarding the underworld, afterlife, immorality, eternal life, etc., from the ancient past or as
an eternal archetypal symbolism that can be discovered.
Imbalance of life and living perpetuates because humans can choose to do wrong by their “hearts” -- the
desires, cares and will from consciousness -- and go against the truer self of the natural order of maat,
truth, law, etc. Maat is straightness, evenness, levelness, correctness, rightness, truth, justice,
righteousness, order, as the defense against chaos, evil or isfet. Maat is the guiding order to give things
proper direction and sustains existence being submerged into the chaos, void, abyss etc.
"That which should be considered in the physical and spiritual worlds as correct and true. Maa,
the true is the real, the just, that is to say that which conforms to the order of the universe, the
moral equivalence of which are: the good, the beautiful, the beneficial (nefer) ... (et) the
opposite of the maa, the true and good, is lying or error ... That is to say unrealness, disorder,
incorrectness, violence, injustice, in a word, evil."
- La Doctrine de Maât, Alexandre Moret
Following the rules and principles of maat is to realize the “natural order” in oneself by living in harmony
with the order of the whole, to be a mirror, reflecting a higher nature instead of a lower nature. This can
be used for positive or negative purposes. The “natural order” of the whole of society can be conforming
to unjust and unlawful behavior as dictated by society and its authorities, which veils their actions under
the beneficent divinity of the gods-goddesses and the concept of maat.
Maat was conceived as the arrangement and relationship that underlies all of existence. Maat is the lifegenerating, life-giving principle and force, the reality-determining force. Maat permeates existence and
gives life. This conception related to life, to reality, to truth, rightness, good, justice, is about our
responsibility to live in maat in order to uphold life, reality, truth, good, etc. Again, the kA (k3), with
arms raised upright, is symbolic of the upholding power and energy of our arms and hands through
actions. This is directly demonstrated in the symbolism of Shu holding up Nut (sky) from Geb (earth) in
the creation mythos and Egyptian symbolism, as well as Nun upholding the solar bark, and Hu as well.
We uphold maat with our hands, arms, deeds, actions and behavior that represents our moral “spirit”essence-nature that is choosing right over wrong, good over evil, morality over immorality. The
rightness of man as being maa (true, real, authentic) depends on harmony and alignment with the order
of maat.
The mound symbolism for maat is directly evident in the hieroglyph used to represent the word maat,
which uses a mound or plinth symbol, symbolic of the primordial mound or mount (benben) upon which
the creator Atum-Ptah-Khepri self-emerged. The other more popular symbol for maat, especially
through the goddess, is the feather. The feather represents the all-encompassing air element, which is
the air to life that we breathe, hidden, as is Amun/Amen. Maat is the order necessary to allow creation
to emerge from the primordial chaotic waters of Nun. Nu, or Nun, was considered masculine, and had a
feminine counterpart as Nunet/Naunet, although all of these creation mythos have gods and goddesses
as both masculine and feminine in expressive capacities. Nun, being the formless primordial waters, is
analogous to chaos, as opposed to the form of creation and order therein that is brought about through
the foundational mound of the universal maat.
The maat concept exists everywhere as the foundational mound for everything to be in existence. In
the human sphere of action, as time benders, creator and generator “gods”, we have moral
responsibilities for the power we yield as "gods". We as consciousness are the source reflection that
spawns the concepts we create and impose upon nature and the universe. Without human
consciousness in imagination, there are no concepts to be derived, there is no science or religion. It all
comes from within us. There is no need to externalize anything about how great our powers are and the
potential we have for more stability, i.e balance and harmony in terms of alignment with moral actions.
With great power of thought, comes great responsibility, for good or for evil. Higher order
consciousness free will and creative capacities are a double-edged sword. The imagination factory run
by an abstraction engine is capable of great feats and also fantasy. The pharaoh was to bea “Living”,
living according to maat’s order, justice, with the kA power and strength of gods to do this, the life of
truth and justice, good, righteousness, etc. It's all about that foundational concept which is the moral
sphere of higher order consciousness.
Maat points the way for the solar barge/bark on its journey into the underworld and self-renewal.
Maati, Double Maat, Tow Truths, Two Eyes, the past and the future knowledge, moral knowledge (good
and evil) of the past and using that to develop moral knowledge of the future actions we should take.
The determinative for maat, and other symbolism, has that way connected to life, ankh, the realer,
truer, higher life of moral living in maat, truth, law, right, etc. The Ba, what I identity as the truer self
ideal potential symbolic projection, is also seen in a barge/bark, as is the sun, since we can self-renew
ourselves, as does the sun through the power of truth in the light of the stars and the sun.
-- Creation of Maat
-----------Daughter-Mother symbolism
Syzygy
Mother and wife of son/sun while also daughter of son/sun. Gives birth to herself as sun.
Masculine subject to goddess symbolism.
Sun is masculine aspect of goddess
Shu, the first air god, and Tefnut the counterpart goddess of moisture, moist air, dew, are the first to
emerge from the creator god Atum, with Shu being equated to Life, and Tefnut equated to Maat. The
right Eye of Ra/Horus is representative of the ancient mother/daughter nurturing but vengeful justice of
order. Maat, Tefnut, is the original Right Eye (udjat) symbolism in the creation myths that is also
associated other goddesses like Isis. Maat acts like the syntropy order force of creation, creating
explicate order through underlying laws and forces, while the opposite is the implicate order of
symmetry chaos entropy stagnation where everything is everywhere nonexisting, as Nun. Maat
maintained the stability of the created universe from the abyss and void of the chaos of the
primordial waters. The order of the universe is maintained by maat, while the counterpart of chaos,
injustice or violence is referred to as isfet, to do evil. The fiery lioness is usually seen as the unhindered
power that needs the feminine care to temper itself from indiscriminate rage and violence. I see the
right eye or right hand symbolism as the stern feminine eye or hand of reciprocity of justice (maat)
that detects injustice and balances (maat) it, loving reward or fiery punishment, according to what we
do to generate those consequences. Kali-Ma also represents the right eye dark goddess aspect. When
you go out of harmony, the dark side comes back to you to reap and set things back in harmony with
justice and order.
Tefnut, Maat, was both the left and right Eye, moon and sun, symbolically, originally starting off as the
right eye that became known as the udjat. The solar goddess was dry and the lunar goddess was moist.
The Two Eye’s and the narrative about it is associated with Thoth as well, who has moon symbolism of
the second eye of the moon, on the left, despite being a masculine personification, and he was also the
consort-partner for Maat, with importance in the Hall of Maat as well.
Tefnut, was the first lioness goddess in the creation mythos, and Shu, her masculine counterpart, was
also sometimes a lion. This is the source narrative for the two lionesses, with the goddess in the middle,
as is often a depiction for Isis. The two suns of Horus, the two Eyes of Horus or Ra, are also
representative of this two lioness symbolism through Tefnut, the lioness goddess. She has shared titles
with many other feminine personifications, such as “Lady of the Flame” and “Uraeus on the Head of all
the Gods”. Tefnut is the first goddess born, and the first lioness symbolism, and the first to have the
uraeus symbol of the sun disk and snake with its tail used on a god-goddess in this creation myth. Don’t
forget, Tefnut is Maat. Shu and Tefnut are the masculine and feminine pairs for symbolism of life (Shu)
and maat, order, justice, law, truth (Tefnut) (Coffin Texts spell 80).
The dual suns of rising and setting, as later personified through Horus, the two eyes, the two
lionesses, all symbolically relate to Tefnut/Maat, and also Shu/Life, from the creation mythos. The
right Eye of Ra/Horus is the solar eye but the Eye Goddess, whereas the left eye is the moon and
referenced to the masculine Thoth, Maat’s spouse. Tefnut and Maat can be paired or symbolized as two
daughters in representations of goddesses. The right Sole Eye is wandering, lost, and comes back,
renewed, regenerated using symbolism of the feminine. The Sole/Soul Eye was searching for the first
daughter and son of creation, Tefnut and Shu. Thoth, in some myths, is said to have brought back the
Eye that got lost, but the new left eye had been created to take its place which infuriated the daughter
eye goddess original Right Eye before it went off wandering, symbolizing the dark side of the feminine
destructive power of the right eye of the sun, fiery flames, piercing truth and consequences.
The Eye of Ra is associated with Tefnut and Maat, and as the daughter-mother archetype through
maat as the universal foundation, and as Maat as the daughter of Ra/Re. The daughter or Ra/Re
become his important Right Eye, the original One Eye before another was brought in as a
replacement, and then it comes back as a vengeful eye, the dark daughter-mother archetype. In the
story of the wounded eye that returned, so too can maat (order) return once wounded by the creation
of isfet (chaos) we bring about.
Presenting the Eye of Wedjet/Udjet/Udjat, is the presenting of maat symbolizing the returning of
order and justice to society and the world as a renewal (tekh festival). Wadjet means green one, again
to the green generative symbolism and therefore the feminine generative symbolism, of green
animals of the waters (frogs, toads, amphibians) and the green plants, as symbolism of regeneration
and rebirth. Osiris is also green, king of life and death rebirth regeneration symbolism.
Ruler Veiled in Maat Authority
In Egypt the pharaoh was supposed to represent maat through the law as his word/speech and actions,
as a model for everyone else to uphold as the divine representative of truth and order. The power of
truth and order from maat/Maat was what the pharaoh was supposed to represent, and they had this
power and knowledge because of the supposed purer kA(k3) power that was also of divinity and godly
which gave them power and strength to rule. The ruler or leader was associated with being an
intermediary of the rule of society with the rule of nature, hence the natural order was personified
through the ruler/leader of kingship. The ruler, in charge of guiding people, could use this power for
good or evil, to destroy individuality by eroding the self into a devotion and collective conformity to a
divine authority as an embodiment of godly kA and maat natural order represented in human authority.
"The institution of kingship was projected as the sole force which held the country together, and
the dual nature of the monarchy was expressed in the king's regalia, in his titulary, and in royal
rituals and festivals. This concept -the harmony of opposites, a totality embracing pared
contrasts- chimed so effectively with the Egyptian world-view that the institution of kingship
acquired what has been called a 'transcendent significance'. This helps to explain the centrality
of the institution to Egyptian culture, and its longevity." - Wilkinson, 2001, p.185, quoting
Frankfort, 1948.
Maat guided Re/Ra sun across the sky. In right hand path of order and truth, Maat is the guide for us to
rebirth and be reborn. Without Maat and the “Spirit of Good/God”, you go the wrong way, left hand
path of the “Spirit of Evil/Devil”.
-- Ka and Maat
The narratives and stories used symbolism, such as father to son tales, that would describe how to
live a “good” life, a life of maat. Hearing wisdom literature was to let the kA (power, strength) of the
words themselves to enter your “inner being” and be able to copy it if you properly heard and
understood the wisdom. kA was looked at as the double in many symbolic ways, as it is two arms
upright, and hence also related to maat, truth, justice, order, etc. through upright actions and deeds
from those arms and hands. kA was also a part of the 7 part conceptual model of the “soul” or “spirit”
of man, and is interpreted in a variety of ways.
Spirit is often a word for breath as well in many languages, and related to wind and air. To live in maat
was to be inspired and breathe in the essence of maat, the truth of living, to speak and do by, in and
for maat, to be maa, true, and maa kheru, true of voice.
-- Maat and Scales
Anubis, a god of the underworld, was the witness of the balancing of the scales, between the heart of
desires and deeds, and the feather of truth, justice and order. The scale symbolism is about the
practice of the Wisdom of Right-Action through the pursuit of maat, truth, justice. When injustice
comes about, the scales tip, and the heart, desires, deeds, need to be rebalanced in accordance with
the alignment and harmony with truth, justice, maat. You measure yourself against truth, and work to
fix your imbalance. The scale and balance itself represents reciprocity through the beam of cause and
effect from one side affecting the other, linked. Understanding morality, especially as a Natural Moral
Law concept, can help to demonstrate how the scales themselves are symbolic of the reciprocity of
cause and effect in human behavior of morality, as well as a general universal Natural Law outside of
human behavior. This helps to understand the heart as our cares/desires and deeds, actions or
behavior that results from following them.
The Hall of Maati, Double Maat, Double Truth, Two Truth, Justice, Judgment. Why double? As with
other counterpart symbolism, the counterpart to the concept of maat was isfet, chaos. Order vs.
chaos, truth vs. falsity, good vs. evil, justice vs. injustice. These are the two truths, double maat, that
are required knowledge for understanding judgment and justice. Moral knowledge of good and evil.
Karma is morality simply as a cause and effect representation, when properly understood. Ka-maat,
ka-maa represents karma and morality. This helps to understand what Ka, strength, power, life force,
truly represents in symbolism that was taken literally, as the moral force of true life we imbue
ourselves with when we live in accordance with maat, truth, justice, order.
Ka is the life force, power and strength of our arms and hands, upright, correct, in order, as maat,
living in maat with your Ka. Ka-maat, ka-maa, is karma, morality, living in the power and strength of
Ka deeds and actions in accordance with the order, law and truth of maat/Maat. To live in maat, you
require Ka, your actions and deeds from your arms and hands, that are upright as Ka, and living in
maat’s uprightness and righteousness.
Rulership
The one with the most Ka was the king, or pharaoh, and the gods. These were the power, life force,
strength, etc., the “double” symbolism is again used for Ka, since it is two arms raised. This concept also
ties into the divine rulership. The divine king acted in ways that allowed everyone else to live in
accordance with maat, and provided the proper Ka, as a “life force” this time (power, strength), to flow
in society as a result. The society had rituals to ensure upkeep of maat in life in order to have a heart
that was aligned with the plume/feather of maat: truth. There are 42 Negative Confessions (Declaration
of Virtues and Innocence) to attest to when being judged in the Halls of Maati, in order to demonstrate
how you lived in maat. Maat is an ancient concepts of order, balance and harmony with truth, justice,
good, right, uprightness, righteousness. But, the evil always acts under the veil of good, using concepts
to infatuate people and convince them of divine authority to rule in the image of what is “right”, as the
“law”.
There is a concept of natural order that is fed to the populace that is veiled under the concept of actual
“natural order”. The “order” to follow evil under the guise of good. People do not want to see that evil
is using good and are only seeing the pharaoh as a literal embodiment of what it was professed they
were, instead of another human who had power and used it to control a populace as is the case
throughout history using imagery of story narratives to keep people in line. The concept of maat is
perfect to inculcate in a populace and have yourself seen as the divine earthly leader, a real (maa) king,
a spiritual king, with the highest embodiment of truth, order, justice, etc.
Judgment of Dead in Duat tradition is after Old Kingdom. If the texts are taken to reflect the exoteric
level of manipulation at the time, it seems the controllers went from a dominator patriarch pharaohonly “ascension” as a Living, as Ka of the gods, into the heaven of the gods after death, to then anyone
being worthy of "ascension" in order to get the populace to believe in the validity of rulership. Get
everyone to believe they too can reach the afterlife, if they live in maat like the pharaoh does. The
earlier texts, such as the Discourse of the Man with his Ba, is an example of the classes of possibility for
accessing eternal life, if taken as a reflection of the people who wrote these narratives that encoded
wisdom while at the same time exoterically manipulating the populace.
Scale
The failing of living up to maat with your ka in life, means your heart weighs you down low to be
devoured by the beast Ammit/Ammut, “Devouress of the Dead”, hence what we need to make dead
and devour, to kill within us that is failing to weigh up and live up to maat, the feather on the scale.
Your actions, deeds, desires that weigh you down on the scale, need to be killed and eaten, whereby
we can then revive, refresh, resurrect, rebirth, reincarnate to be better than before and live better.
When we learn more about truth, order, justice, we can weigh ourselves again, fight our demons,
darkness, shadow, negative, wrong and evil within, and change more into alignment with the feather.
This is the immediate level one afterlife, eternal life, immortality, where we begin life a new as a new
version of ourselves, continually remaking ourselves from new images/forms, better than before,
superior. This is alchemy, self-improvement, self-transformation. The level 2 of afterlife, eternal life,
and immortality is when we all live in this way of continual self-renewal in alignment and balance
with the spirit of good in maat, truth, justice, order, upright living, etc. with our Ka in life. Then we
actually get to create a heaven on earth, the afterlife, eternal life, paradise, etc. because we
understand how to live properly in harmony and a right way of living. This requires a lot of release
from attachments to current ways of living and beliefs that substantiate them. We weigh ourselves
down in life, into false selves, as we transgress against maat, truth and justice, all by our own actions,
failing to be maa (true, right, authentic) living in maat (truth, justice, law, order).
**weighing of the heart is not when you die after living. You get weighed all the time, and you get sent
to death, in the tomb, dead, in lies and falsity of isfet, or you graduate and journey towards truth and
rewards as you embody more morality and truth, the afterlife, after the "life" of standard control when
we are reborn and reawaken to self-knowledge, moral knowledge, rather than be a walking dead "life",
we are reborn into the afterlife to be truly alive, int he true self.
“Keep in mind that Maat was symbolized weighing (testing, judging) the hearts (desires) of
the “dead” to determine their fates, hence whether their spirit (ka) was characterized by good
(life) or evil (death). The “dead” are those with heads (mindsets) in the “earth,” hence the
lowest of the seven spirits. Once again, this symbolizes ka-maat, a.k.a. karma, or in other
words, determining the maat of one’s ka (moral essence, a.k.a. spirit).”
- Finishing the Mysteries of the Gods and Symbols, pg.105
Maati is used to refer to two eyes, twin sisters. 'Rekhti-merti-neb-Maāti ' ( i.e. , ' twin - sisters with
two eyes, ladies of double Maāti '). This ties to Tefnut, two lionesses, two Eyes of Ra, the first single
eye of udjat being the feminine eye of the daughter. Eyes are vision, to see truth and know wisdom,
and the two eyes to see the two spirits of good and evil, to have knowledge of good and evil and not
walk in ignorance of the blindness, darkness and cold checkerboard floor of dualistic living in amoral
good and evil actions.
The heart, is the symbol for mind, will, desire, essentially a person’s essence, hence their spirit, their
life force, their power, strength, etc. which is also symbolized by the Ka actions and deeds power to
achieve the good or evil desires of the heart-mind. The heart symbolism is also the heart of man, the
spirit of man, essence of man and quintessence, real essence, real nature, true essence, true nature, is
human nature, human essence of the soul-spirit-heart of man, good and morality, the proper path and
way of the good ideal-idea.
The Hall of Maati, of Double Truth, Justice, Judgment, etc., had 42 assessors to pass final judgment of
maat. 42 is linking 4 and 2, 4 elements and duality. 2 as 1 and 1 is 11, 2 and 11 for the justice of duality
of good and evil. The 4 elements are
Thoth plays an important role to write down the results as the scribe. Thoth, although masculine, was
the counterpart to Maat, who had the moon as a symbolism, and he represented wisdom. Maat is
wisdom as well, since the source of wisdom is truth, maat, and the feminine is always looked upon at
the gender for wisdom and truth, such as the established Sophia.
Why is the woman wisdom, truth? Why sophia? isis? Maat?
Part of it is inthe word for daughter of Re, Maat, the goddess of Truth or Righteous-ness, was a daughter
of Ra (sat-Ra)
sat = wisdom, sat-Re
satra, daughter of the sun, daughter of ra
The Ka is the power and strength to act and sow deeds. Whatever we sow, good or evil, has within it
the seeds of its own justice. This is ka-maa, karma. Cause and Effect on a moral consequential level
that will affect us in harm. This also applies in a universal causal capacity as consequences,
repercussions, reciprocity and justice for affects we have on our environment that return back on us
and affect us.
The goddess Maat is written in computer format as M3’t, and maat is m3’t, and maa is m3’. The scale,
is m(kh)3t, the m3t from mat with kh inserted.
-Creation Mythos
This is the sun setting and rising everyday, a victory every morning rising anew. Each day is a conflict
to survive, battling the inner demons in the underworld, the weakness we get over, the temptations,
pleasure trap, etc. Always rectifying ourselves, if we are on that path, hard narrow path, that is,
where we face the demons and seek to continually rectify ourselves.
The creator, Atum/Atem-Ptah-Khepri/Khepra/Xepher -Ra/Re-Amun/Amon/Amen, was self-created, but
had nowhere to stand in the formless primordial waters of Nun. This is clear anthropomorphizing of
ourselves onto concepts. Other creations conceptions place “God” creator as both the formless void,
and the creator, as one. This mythos had the creator needing to stand on something, like an actual
person requires to stand on something. The creator used charm, the magic of the spoken word, as the
basis for creation, to lay the foundation for all things according to the foundational principle of maat in
his heart-mind-will. Maat was the foundation before anything was created, it was the underlying
universal cosmic natural order. Then, the creator makes everything else that has form. The first godgoddess pair of Shu-Tefnut is created by the masculine god creator himself, either through word/speech
magic power, or through spitting of ejaculate that he masturbated into his mouth. Earlier conceptions of
generation creator involved only the woman, but now in this later period of civilization, after the flood
or ice age, the generative creator was personified according to the masculine dominance of the
civilization of the time. Nun was masculine, Atum creator was masculine, Life as Shu was masculine, but
they could not separate the important symbolic representation of the feminine from the mythos. Maat
is an underlying concept that was anthropomorphized, personified and projected onto the form and
concept of a goddess later on. Maat is the only god or goddess that has its own conceptual source that
pervades all of existence and creation.
Here is one description of one creation mythos: “I had union with my closed hand, and I embraced my
shadow as a wife, and I poured seed into my own mouth, and I sent forth from myself issue in the form
of the gods Shu and Tefnut.”
As previously described in the Maat section, the primordial waters of chaos are symbolically the infinite
void and abyss, infinite lifeless darkness with an absence of differentiation or manifestation of creation.
Creation then comes about as order amidst the background of chaos. Actuality is manifested from the
potential of all states being possible.
Is the creation narrative to be taken as a literal representation of history, of what happened and who
made it happen? Or is this the age old science of imagery, using symbolism, metaphor, analogy, allegory
and parables to describe some concept that was represented through this altered narrative story
method?
Regarding the creator god Amun-Amon-Amen, he is represented with a feathered headdress. Instead of
just one feather, he has 4 columns and 7 rows of feathers. The symbolism of 4, 7 and 11 are present. 11
is also dual as 2 lines, and 1 + 1 add up to 2. Amun was said to protect the weak for the strong who
would violate them with injustice, to uphold justice for all. Amen means what is hidden, not seen,
cannot be seen, etc. The path of 7 spirits of god/good, is the path of truth and justice, the path of 1st
and last as 1 and 7, the path of maat, the path of sun the right way, not the wrong way.
In the Bible, the 7 and 4 are related to the 7 Spirits of Good/God and the 4 elements, cherubs, angels,
etc.:
And I beheld, and, lo, within the midst of the throne and of the four creatures, and within the midst of
the elders, stood a Lamb, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God sent
forth into all the earth.
- Revelation 5:6
For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will
engrave the graving thereof, said the Lord of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
- Zechariah 3:9
Wisdom has built Her house; She has hewn out Her seven pillars.
- Proverbs 9:1
-- Magic, Heka, word
In reference to the charm, word or speech of the creator, Hu was personified as the creative
utterance, and later Heka was personified as magic itself, from the power of speech and word. Heka
means activation of the Ka, hence it’s implication of magic, power and influence in life through
drawing on the power of the Ka from the gods. Remember, this is all conceptual symbolic tales,
narratives and stories for those who can discern the wisdom within. For everyone else, these are
literal tales.
Maat, the daughter of Ra/Re, was the spouse of Thoth, who himself was a personification of magic
(Heka). So, there is an association, a marriage, between Maat and Heka, truth, justice, order, and magic
of speech and word, through that of Maat and Thoth. Thoth was the scribe, writer of words, guardian of
magic, etc. Shu and Hu are a part of Heka, symbolically through symbolic representation. Heka became
the Greek Hike. Maat, become the Greek Themis and Dike personifications.
Maat/Maut/Mayet
"Hall of the Two Truths"
Hall of Judgment of the Double-Ma-at
Halls of Ma'ati or Halls of the Double Ma'at
Hall of the Ma'ati (doubly righteous)
"Hall of the Double Truth"
"Hall of Judgment" (judgment of two things, good and evil)
Hall of Double Justice
Double? Why? (Maati, Merti)
KA-Maat, Karma. Double, two scales in the balance, measuring them each, which is the symbol for
balance, to measure things. Thoth the divine measurer, Ma'at is the scales that are measuring the KA
of Ma'at, the SPirit of Maat, two truths of reality of good and evil. The m ound plinth symbol for maat
also represents ½ fraction, as in 2 parts of 1 whole are the two halves of good and evil, maat being the
½ of truth, law, order, right, etc.
3 ideals
- consciousness/conscious awareness/knowing, love of knowledge/knowing/consciousness, what is
right, sure, certain, true being
- truth, justice, rectitude/righteousness
- metaphysical love (universal transcendental being) (agape love true care?), consciousness of prime
mover/cause, knowledge of Being at beginning of all being
-- Ankh
Ankh is the key to life, related to maat as the life-generating, life-giving principle and force, the realityconstituting force. Ankh is also related to the breath of life, being held close to the mouth (ru) or
nostrils, as is described in many creation mythos about how God breathed life into man. The ankh as a
symbol, is also encoding the way and path of maat and the 4 elemental pathway to uphold maat and kamaat, ka-maa. The ankh is symbolically also the breath of eternal life, afterlife, immorality, this is the
real life, true life, “life” of maat in the path and way of rightness, goodness, truth, justice, etc. The ankh
of life is also related to the Nile of life giving nature, and the Nile symbolism of the heavenly waters, the
milky way, the primordial waters.
A key is also used to open doors. Ankh as the key of life, real life, true life, is symbolic of opening and
closing powers that are opened by a door, a path, a way. The ankh has three arms of the cross with the
top part as the ru/rw doorway opening. The top part of the cross, in the wheel of life symbolism, with air
element at the top, is the 7 Spirits of Good/God. The top of the ankh with the doorway ru/rw symbolism
is the door, path and way to the 7 Spirits of Good/God. This is the key of life, breath of life, to represent
the door, path and way to truth, right, good, justice, etc. The path and way to maat, the life-permeating
reality-ordering principle applied to human behavior, which is known as morality. The key opens the
door to knowledge, mystery, initiation and curiosity of the metaphysical aspects of evolving
consciousness and greater understanding of reality. The key opens the door between the current world
and its current condition, earth rules by the devil as a hell it currently is, towards the new world, the
next world, the world of the “afterlife”, “eternal life”, “paradise”, “heaven”, etc. This is the world we
can create once we live in maat, and use the key to life knowledge of the 4 elements to walk through the
door, path and way of initiation into truth, good, right, etc. This is the same symbolism in the hero
monomyth of going into the underworld and reemerging anew, renewed, rebirthed, resurrected,
revived into real life, true life, authentic life, the afterlife of the first type of false self which is living in
the tomb, grave, coffin of darkness, death, ignorance, blindness, etc., symbolized by the earth element
opposed to the air element of higher consciousness. The gift of life from the various deities, that is given
to the dead, is the symbolic act of conception, to birth a new life, reborn, renewed, resurrected, born
again to the new world of life, light, truth instead of falsity of the old world where you were once part of
the dead, blind, and in darkness.
"No man from outside can make you free... No one holds the Key to the Kingdom of Happiness.
No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is your own self, and in the development and
the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity"
- J.D.Krishnamurti
No one has the key except yourself. You are the only one that can open the door and walk through it
onto the path and way to eternity, eternal life, afterlife, immortality, etc. Only you can do the selftransformative work, if you want. No one can do it for you.
This is the way to the Kingdom of Heaven within that we can then eventually create in the external
world as a reflection of who we transform ourselves into. We need the light of truth, the wisdom, to
generate the heat of justice, to burn away at the corrupted, degenerate lower animistic beastly carnal
fleshly base consciousness. Only you yourself, as a consciousness, can learn what is good from evil, true
from false, right from wrong, and work to correct, straighten, transmute, sublimate, sanitize and purify
yourself in alignment with more of one polarity instead of the other, with more of maat instead of isfet.
-Go read up on the many interpretations of Ka that conflict. And then try to understand what it means
through the symbol itself and how it is used to understand what it means without other interpretations
having you believe in their version. Understand how Ka is being used as a concept. Understand how
maat is used as a concept. The original symbol is what is important, as it likely predates the
development of the then Egyptian civilization. I speculate about the likelihood of a pre-deluvian, preflood, pre-ice age, etc. civilization that would have been the source derivation for much of the
symbolism that was sustained through the imagery of narratives, stories and myths. The concept of
soul and spirit is ridiculously absurd by the time it was written exoterically and used for rituals, but some
symbolism holds keys to source wisdom.
Ursa Major, the 7 stars, was represented by an ox-bull-bovine thigh, head or whole body in zodiac
symbolism of Egypt. It was called Mšhtyw.
--
The bird symbolism was female through much of ancient history and can be found in many places. The
bird goddess is the life giver, nourisher, weaver and spinner of human fate, but also the the dark
goddess of death as the vulture, owl or other predatory bird. Birth and death regenerative cycles are
central to the genetrix creative power. The genetrix, personified through Isis and others, was
representative of the first dark primordial waters that produces all of manifested existence, the
mother of all things. She is the patroness of arts, nurser of crocodiles and of wisdom. Crocodiles,
dragons, snakes, all have wisdom symbolism. She is also the cosmic weaver weaving all into being on
her loom.
The birds are symbols of life, death and the concept of the soul relating to an afterlife, afterdeath,
rebirth, resurrection, reincarnation, eternal paradise, heaven, hell, etc. The birds in the air, the sun in
the air, both are symbol for life, death and the soul rebirth symbolism. This is itself symbolized in a
famous bird of resurrection, the phoenix.
The vulture is the Egyptian symbol for mother, and Mut, who was also named World-Mother, Eye of
Ra, Queen of the Goddesses, Lady of Heaven, Mother of the Gods, and She Who Gives Birth, But Was
Herself Not Born of Any. Mut was also transliterated as Maut and Mout. This is similar to Maat and
she also has the feather of Maat at her feet. Her other names as other mother goddesses are Ta-urt,
Isis, Hathor. Mut was the primordial waters, like Nun, but in another mythos. The vultures were once
thought to be all female and were all conceived by the wind herself. Ma is a term used for wind in
some places, signifying the ancient view of air as feminine, conception, life, generation, etc. Mut,
along with Sis and others, was also referred to as Werethekau, which means “great of magic” (weret
hekau, heka, ka).
Goddess Ma
Ma (goddess)
Ma was a local goddess at Ma and a Phrygian alternative name for Cybele.
----------- from Palermo Stone
Finally, the last complete name seems to be Mch, Mh, or Maa. The owl (M) is pretty clear, and the next
glyph (definitely a club) meaning CH or H is fairly clear. However, there is another club-like glyph which
is usually transcribed as AA, and this is not impossible. Whichever "club" is represented, the god-king
intended is surely Ma.
To live and breath maat, to do maat, was also referred to as maa kheru. Maat is truth, maa is true, and
the phrase maa kheru means true of voice, being true of voice, doing maat, living maat.
maa (mAA, verb) – see
maa' (mAa, adj.) - true, loyal
maa'et (mAa.t, fem.) - truth, Ma'at
maa'-kherew (mAa-xrw, adjective) - "true of voice", used of the deceased
law, true, straight, real, balance; and also sight, inspection, to see, to oversee.
From the book, The Immanence of Maat in African Culture:
Ancient Egyptian
maat, "truth"; maa, "true"
Coptic (Egypt)
me, mee, mie, me!, meei. "truth," "justice," and also "truthful." "righteous"
Caffino (Cushitic, Ethiopia)
moyo. "motive," "reason" (truth and reason are inseparable)
Kongo Congo)
moyo, "life," "soul." "mind" (same semantic field)
Ngbaka (Central African Republic)
ma, magic medicine (in order to know the truth)
Fang (Equatorial Guinea, South Cameroon, Gabon)
mye, mie, "pure" (tabe mye. "to be physically and morally pure")
Mpongwe (Gabon)
mya, "to know" the truth
Knowledge,” which the Delphic oracle also enjoined
(mya re isome, the self nothi seauton)
Yoruba (Nigeria)
mo, "to know" the truth (knowledge)
Hausa (Nigeria)
ma, "in fact." "indeed" (affirmative truth: ni ma na ji, "I in fact heard it")
Mada (North Cameroon)
mat, "genie," "goblin" (semantic specialization)
Nuer (Nilotic, Sudan)
mat, "total," "sum up"; "forces" (ro mat. "to join forces with. "Maat is indeed the total of all virtues, all
forces as ideals to guide man in his personal and spiritual life).
Hatshepsut was named Maat-ka-Re, “The Spirit of Re is Ma’at”. Inerestingly, this god is seen with
Seshat, a mirror or sibling for Maat goddess symbolism in many cases, as she is the wife of Thoth as
well in some references, and her important emblem of the 7 pointed star with the dual sided covering,
similar to inverted horns, is symbolic as well of the importance of 7 virtues and vices within the dual
truths/spirits of good and evil ways and paths of living. Thoth is also the counterpart for Maat, with
his importance in the Hall of Maati, Dual Truths. Another interpretation is The Soul of Ra is Justified,
Justice-Soul-Ra, Maat-Ka-Ra. They all mean the same thing. Truth/Order/Balance ("Maat") is the
Spirit/Double ("ka") of Ra/Re. It is the higest form of self to aspire to, as our double.
The right-hand path of the right way, doing right, good, true, is the "divine" way with the Divine Eye of
sight and vision of wisdom. The violation of this right-hand path of right-action, is wrong action.
Every single person needs a foundation to stand upon. What is your foundation? Most people don't
know, and some people know what their feeble foundation is. Anything that is not Truth and Morality, is
a feeble foundation. Most people don't have the proper foundation, and will not live a real life of Truth
and Morality. This is based in objective understanding of reality to determine right from wrong.
Tarot, Devil XV, Magician I, both have right arm up, left arm down, up to air, down to earth. The higher
you want to grow, the deeper your roots need to be. YOu need to be grounded in reality, in order to
reach for the stars, otherwise you get lost. Also, right hand/left hand reciprocity symbolism.
Triangles play an important role in feminine symbolism. The regenerative triangle, generation,
operation, destruction, is also represented of the birthing pubic triangle of the regenerative womb.
The triangle is one of the earliest symbols in shrines and pottery. The hourglass symbol of two
triangles touching at the tip forms the feminine body symbolism. As the regenerative womb, it is also
symbolized through the regenerative swamps and waters where there are frogs, toads and
amphibians, hence the color green of these creatures, and of nature, for the regenerative power. The
hippo is also a water animal, as are crocodiles, and birds are often found in water if available for them
in safety. Water associated animals of the earth are feminine symbolism. Also, many snakes can go in
water, and snakes symbolize wisdom, and snakes are synonymous with dragons and crocodiles in
many cases, and this links back to the constellation draco and the hippo with crocodile as its
representations with a snake in Egypt.
The wisdom of the air bird goddess, Cygnus, spears the bull-ox earth god of lower natures, of greed,
evil, etc. as the bull or sometimes as a man through the earth god Geb. The killing of the bull of our
lower, earthly, carnal, lustful, fleshly, beastly amoral consciousness is supported by the dragon-snakecrocodile-hippo. The feathered serpent, the wisdom of the bird goddess and the snake-dragon,
combined as the feathered serpent of wisdom, symbolizing raising to higher consciousness.
“The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species,
animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting,
maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life
itself.”
- Oswald Spengler
-- Logos, underlying order.
The concept of a universal order, a larger pattern, was shared with the Greeks, as the underlying order
of logos. Maat and logos are linked. As Heka is magic and speech, and is related with Thoth, it is also
related to the Thoth’s spouse counterpart Maat, bringing speech, words, and the creative power of
this magic as symbolism of logos in connection to maat. The connecting concept is that of wholeness,
harmony, balance, order among many cultures which is what Logos represents. Zoroastrian Asha,
Chinese Tao, Indian Dharma, Egyptian Maat, Greek Logos. Jesus is symbolized as truth in many
parables, and is referred to as the logos as well. The Logos of creative power symbolism applies in
many ways, one is of truth that is the purpose of proper speech in Ancient Egyptian wisdom
symbolism about correct speaking, maa-kheru, true of voice. Truth is central, as is maat as the
symbolism of truth, order and justice, and logos is symbolic of this as well. The power of speech we
have as magic and influence and creative power, is generative and “godly” for its affect to alter our
human world and transform our way of living. This is personified and projected into aspects of gods
and goddesses and other concepts that are symbolic to understandings of ourselves and our attempts
to provide answers to questions.
-- Historical, moral development
The earliest most developed explicit moral teachings are found in Egypt. This is not to say they did not
previously exist in some original source form in a prior civilization that resurged in a new civilization
after the flood period. Maat was the embodiment of perfect virtue in truth, right, good, justice, order,
etc. Maa is simply the real, reality that is, what is true. It represents authenticity, and genuine, as
opposed to inauthentic and artificial. Maat is truth and the whole totality of reality, of all things in
actuality, existence or essence. Without the creation of evil, there is no free will evil being created and
a default state of good is automatically present. We create evil through our higher order
consciousness godly powers of creative, generative imagination and abstraction of these ways to do
evil. What I used to call the “force” of truth, love, good, right, morality, moral law, higher self, true
self, spirit, god, etc. was also previously termed the Transcendental Being, but it’s a way to
understand the potential ideal we imagine as an idea and then create in that “spirit”, the spirit of
good or evil.
-Duat symbol
Can you guess the symbol for duat? for dua?
I have been talking about all the symbolism of the underworld and the duat, maat and ka, and the
esoteric wisdom of the realization of the truer self, realer self, authentic self, higher self, higher
nature, truer nature, realer nature, human nature, human being, heart of man, soul of man, spirit of
man, the quintessence. The quintessence is the 5th element.
The duat is represented by a 5 pointed star in a circle. Dua is just a 5 pointed star. I have been saying
the Duat of the Double Truths/Spirit Hall of Judgment is about our life now, self-renewal, etc. That is
the point of the 5-element occult esoteric wisdom that is so confused at the current time.
Yes, Venus, feminine, Astarte, have 5 pointed star as well associated, but all gods and goddesses are
expressions of underlying aspects of ourselves, self, consciousness, soul, ego, etc. here and now in this
life in order to live by the overall central concept of truth, love, goodness, rightness, morality,
correctness, etc. Also, the goddess sheshat,
Duat can be understood in this way, and also through philological transliteration, do mean dual, from
the l and d change in languages, and the d and t interachange. Duat, duad, dual.
t>d>l
dua-t, dua-d, dua-l
This is about the eternal duals in us, and the eternal duel within us, of good and evil, the duel of duals.
The little angel, and the little devil, on our shoulders. Evil comes from causal agents that can create
evil, higher order free will consciousness wrong-actions.
-Primary Importance
“Ma' at: the Ancient Kemetic concept of Truth, balance, order, Jaw, morality, justice and Divine wisdom.
Ma'at was also personified as a Goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals
and the Divine; who reformed the chaotic state of the abyss, and the set the Divine cosmic order of the
universe at the moment of creation. Ma'at is the primary orientation of the Divinity because from chaos
was borne order, and birth is a feminine aspect; there is no masculine representation of a Divine
counterpart of Ma'at; wherein Ma'at is the spirit of Neith; the ancient virgin mother Goddess-wherein
her son is Herii; and in the spirit is the great masculine God whose name is unknown; whom was later
revealed as Amen/Amun-whom was later depicted as "Dhwty"- the mind of God-wherein Amen is the
thoughts of that Atum put into action; as is Dhwty who physically put the thoughts into action through
written word; wherein Dhwty is the teaching spirit of Amen; and is paired with his feminine counterpart
"Seshat"-whom is the personified spirit of Ma'at.”
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The Reaffirmation of the Revelation By Ahmid Shamahd